DAJABON, Dominican Republic.- The town of Dajabón, in the North West of the country, continues to thrive as cross-border trade expands. Every Monday and Friday thousands of Haitians cross the Masacre River to peddle their wares on the streets of the town. The Haitian Consul for the region tells us that trade has almost doubled in recent years and that up to US$400,000 changes hands on any given day.
The origins of this sprawling market go back to the early nineties when Haiti was subjected to sanctions by the USA who had previously been a major supplier of rice to the country. The vacuum was filled by the Dominican Republic and since then the trade has developed and evolved into what it is today.
On the dusty sidewalks of Dajabon goods of all sorts are sold, from basic foodstuffs and household items to cosmetics and stuffed toys. There is also a booming market in second hand clothes imported from America and sold cheap to Haitians and Dominicans alike. At the same time vast amounts of produce is also exported to be sold across the border in Haiti.
However with this growing trade, and the subsequent rapid expansion of the Haitian town of Ouanaminthe, has come a notable increase in crime. Despite the presence of the United Nations, offences ranging from petty theft to drug smuggling and people trafficking have been on the rise.
It is hoped that a new project aiming to regulate and formalise the market may help cut the crime rate and also to keep a closer eye on the legitimacy of the trade. To this end a large new building is being erected on the Dominican side of the border to replace the market’s current sprawling location. In addition to this development the Haitian government with the help of the United Nations has completed the computerization of all customs operations, leading to a 10% rise in tax revenue during the first six months this year.
As the residents of Dajabón await the opening of the new market it remains to be seen what impact the formalisation of cross-border activities will have on the continuing growth of the trade.
Written by: BASTA, 2 Dec 2009 11:45 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Great
Written by: clinker, 2 Dec 2009 11:51 AM
From: Dominican Republic
But the river needs a new name.
Written by: oupala07 
, 2 Dec 2009 12:09 PM
From: Canada
You will never thank us for that. As you can see, we are not good only at tree cutting and charcoal making.
From: Botswana, La reconnaissance est une lachete'
Truth of the matter Haiti is DR second largest trade partner. Second only to the largest market in the world the USA. That was not always the case as stated by this article. That trade is worth over $700mil to DR economy, it is essentially a one way traffic,the loaded 18wheelers only move one direction west. Illigal migration is wrong, but to those of you who are outrage about why your government have not build that wall you so much desire. This is a part of that puzzle, nobody wants to rock this cash cow, they just want to milk it.
Written by: msjersey, 2 Dec 2009 12:41 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
Written by: xwill7, 2 Dec 2009 1:16 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
josean how many fedex trucks do you have on the road near the border?
From: Botswana, La reconnaissance est une lachete'
MSjersey
Brazil & venezuala will gladly step in and fill the void. Hell we are already a member of petro caribe and getting our cement and iron from venezuala.Most of the heavy equiptment coming to Haiti at the moment are manufactured in Brazil. The Chinese goods are flowing in our ports too. I doubt you can compete with that. Yes one can only assume LF is playing his position to keep getting his piece of the pie.
PS. Do you suffer from Turret syndrome? Inquire mind want to know
Judging by the limit of your thinking it is fair to say these matters of state our to big for you to understand. Reading your post post all the time indeed a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
From: United States
Is that true that josean is in jail in the DR?
That was long averdue!
Written by: Pepe32, 2 Dec 2009 2:37 PM
From: Dominican Republic
We got him out of jail ,Josean is now my Restavik ...LOL
From: United States, New York, NY
Oupala stumbles out of his cave once again to threaten us with his mighty intellect!!
Written by: bernies, 2 Dec 2009 3:41 PM
From: United States, key west fl
Hey Outpala, And that is why our national products are so high in price, like a pound yuca or a pound of yautia is 15 pesos. I guess it is because we have fee you guys too.
Written by: xwill7, 2 Dec 2009 3:51 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
send josean a blackberry so he could post about the metro
Written by: msjersey, 2 Dec 2009 4:00 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
Patdemon, you think you're a big shot, or an intellectual
that you're minimizing what I SAY, don't really care buddy.
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2009 5:01 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Back by the popular demand of my loyal fans!
1.
Written by: xwill7, 2 Dec 2009 1:16 PM
From: United States, Chicago
josean how many fedex trucks do you have on the road near the border?
2.
Written by: etiennc01, 2 Dec 2009 2:33 PM
From: United States
Is that true that josean is in jail in the DR?
That was long averdue!
3.
Written by: Pepe32, 2 Dec 2009 2:37 PM
From: Dominican Republic
We got him out of jail ,Josean is now my Restavik ...LOL
4.
Written by: xwill7, 2 Dec 2009 3:51 PM
From: United States, Chicago
send josean a blackberry so he could post about the metro
Almost more attention is paid to me that to the news article.
Written by: msjersey, 2 Dec 2009 5:01 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2009 5:02 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Flash!!!!!!!!
As part of LIE-onel Fernandez border modernization program he plans to bring a Starbucks franchises to the border towns!
Written by: msjersey, 2 Dec 2009 5:04 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
Joseano, you're some popular haitian, ah?
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2009 5:14 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Two more fans have arrived and one even claims to be an adult!
Written by: xwill7, 2 Dec 2009 6:03 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
you did not answer the questions
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2009 6:05 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
Send me subpoena and maybe I will consider it!
Written by: vacanos, 2 Dec 2009 6:28 PM
From: United States, An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Josie yeah why is that everybody in the article section have you as their favorite punching bag.
El hijo eh machepa :P:
From: United States
looks like there will be no wall going up no time soon. lol
Written by: josean, 2 Dec 2009 6:39 PM
From: United States, Show your Love for DR Vote AGAINST the PLD!
anos,
¡Que sencillo eres!
Written by: Pepe32, 2 Dec 2009 6:53 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Josie is the favourite piti jester in this forum.
Everybody needs a laugh and without piti Josean this forum would be a boring place.
Written by: danny00, 2 Dec 2009 7:31 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
lol lol lol im not that bad or ?
Written by: danny00, 2 Dec 2009 7:31 PM
From: United States, syosset, key west, santo domingo AND NOW THE GLOBE TROTTER
Starbucks franchises to the border towns!, really IM SO HAPPY I LOVE TO GO TO STARBUCKS....
hope its true....
maybe the chino people can put up the WALL they are good at this,
just be careful with the DRYWALL they send u.
Written by: msjersey, 2 Dec 2009 8:48 PM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
A great story that rises above normal fray.
This is a story of a symbiotic relationship where everybody wins. Perhaps this should be an example we should emulate.
Too bad every story mentioning Haiti gets treated same way: maligned; diminished; with disdain; reduced to a racial issue; etc.
This one is a success and one we should all feel good about. Perhaps this market should be replicated in several places along the border, to mutual benefit of Dominican farmers and businessmen and Haitian counterparts, consumers.
MJEV.
Written by: bankai, 3 Dec 2009 6:14 AM
From: United States, Long Island
i think this is a plus finally but it needs to be ratified so people in HAITI can make money and maybe they can make a better living so they dont have to walk aimlessly in DR.
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Dec 2009 6:56 AM
From: Canada
"...And we are your provider of everything, even our president has become your number one advocate on international forum:
http://www.listindiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=123515This is not the first time, everywhere he goes he does the same."
Yeah! You just have to watch his last perfomance in Paris defending us. With an advocate like that, one doesn't need to go to trial, he'll be accused by his own lawyer.
You're a bunch of hypocrites living on our back, and your president just proved it to us.
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Dec 2009 7:07 AM
From: Canada
"Oupala stumbles out of his cave once again to threaten us with his mighty intellect!!"
'Hey Outpala, And that is why our national products are so high in price, like a pound yuca or a pound of yautia is 15 pesos. I guess it is because we have fee you guys too."
These are the kind of comments which show me that you the Dominicans are leaving in a realm of dreamers. In fact, you remind me Dubai. That gigantic economic hole has finally swallowed his greedy diggers. The same faith is awaiting your economy, and you won't be able to say that I didn't tell you about it. because for your good memory sake, I archive everything I write on the net. That is the reason why, the Yankees can't argue too much with me, because I love to wave under their nose what I used to tell them about their economy, which has been quick to become a reality.
You the Dominicans know that you have borrowed too much money in order to finance your "folie de grandeur", and now the credit bubble has burst,
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Dec 2009 7:12 AM
From: Canada
and your "great President is obliged to beat the panhandling road, however, he must present himself under the face of a borrower and not of a beggar. Therefore, he portrayed Haiti as the beggar and him as a friend who needs money for investment. If he was that smart, we Haitians, wouldn't have seen our economy expand by 3% in 2009, while yours shrunk by more than 2%.
Don't you worry, keep kidding yourself, for one day you'll wake up. In fact, those black out are only just the beginning of your downfall. For when an economy is faltering, the very first to suffer is the energy department.
I'll be here laughing.
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Dec 2009 7:29 AM
From: Canada
NUMBER ONE:
In fact, if your president wasn't a shameful opportunistic hypocrit, this is what he would have talked about us:
Haiti upswing seen at Caribbean conference
Sun Sentinel
December 2, 2009
After years of upheaval and reversals, Haiti is making significant progress; its streets safer, politics more stable and business growing, particpants said at the Miami Conference on the Caribbean this week.
Employment in the garment industry now tops 26,000, up from roughly 12,000 in 2006, with Brazilian, Korean and U.S. companies looking to invest in new facilities for export, said Leslie Delatour, a business consultant in Haiti and former World Bank economist.
Companies in South Florida also are bullish. Internet service provider Tropical Telecom invested about $7 million this year and plans to invest another $5 million next year, buoyed by a welcoming attitude by government to business, said Chris Taylor,
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Dec 2009 7:29 AM
From: Canada
the Miami-based chief executive of the firm, which is based in the U.S. Virgin Islands
"There's a different energy about Haiti. It's exciting," said Jose Perez-Jones, senior vice president of Miami-based shipping line Seaboard Marine, which has seen its Haitian imports and exports grow this year.
The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti was hard hit lin 2008 by back-to-back hurricanes that prompted massive economic losses.
But increased international assistance and a more united, pro-business push by Haitians themselves is helping return the nation of 9 million people to stability and growth, panelists said.
A new productivity council, for example, has worked to slash the number of days needed to open a new business from roughly 300 to 75, said Maxime Charles, a Scotiabank executive in Haiti. And last month, a new prime minister took office without major violence in "for the first time... a very smooth transtion," Charles said.
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Dec 2009 7:30 AM
From: Canada
Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive, a former planning minister addressed the conference Tuesday night, welcoming investors and committing his government to facilitate business.
The annual conference ends Wednesday.
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Dec 2009 7:40 AM
From: Canada
And here is the link for the Sun Sentinel article:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-haiti-conference-20091202,0,1747702.story
Likewise, you can see for yourself that your president has been giving us bad press in order to impress his credidors. But that won't change the fact that we are slowly climbing out of shit. However, you the Eastern Latinos, are in deep shit hole, you can try to hide it as much you can, that won't make you safer from a total collapse of your economy.
We can understand now why your elite has begun to shut down its hateful rhetoric toward our people living among you: it needs the cheap labour. However, you the common people must beging to be grateful toward us, for we are taking care of our economy, and at the same time, we are helping you sustain yours by allowing you a one way 700 millions dollars trade and by supplying you cheap labour. Look at again at border town of Dajabon.
Show at least some respect for that kind of performance.
Written by: oupala07 , 3 Dec 2009 8:54 AM
From: Canada
We Haitians do not hate each others, but what we do not understand is that we are Haitians our own way. The mulattoes do not like us, it is a fact, but they think rightfully that the country belongs to them in a certain way, It is the truth that we took it from their parents, but we paid a damn' heavy price for That, and they also benefited from our holocaust (we lost more than one third of our population.), and besides, we, like you the Dominicans, were born hear too, despite destroying this country and fleeing it, we love it to death. If you and I had the right people at the helm, our two country would have domindated the Carribean, period. by keeping trying to prove to each other that we are all going down.
However, we Haitians have the word "survival" carved on our spinal cord: I predict that Haiti will proudly beat the recession. What about you cousins? I sincerely wish you a very good luck, because head of States travel only when they are going to beg or to give. Are you giving
Written by: msjersey, 3 Dec 2009 10:17 AM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
That's the spirit garcon.
Written by: lovingit, 4 Dec 2009 2:29 AM
From: United States, Delaware
Is the white Dominican-Army guy suppose to intimidate the black Haitians?
Written by: msjersey, 4 Dec 2009 9:17 AM
From: United States, New Jersey(Cibaeno/Los mina)
What kind of question is that?
Don't forget your pills, buddy!
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This is not the first time, everywhere he goes he does the same.
Brazil & venezuala will gladly step in and fill the void. Hell we are already a member of petro caribe and getting our cement and iron from venezuala.Most of the heavy equiptment coming to Haiti at the moment are manufactured in Brazil. The Chinese goods are flowing in our ports too. I doubt you can compete with that. Yes one can only assume LF is playing his position to keep getting his piece of the pie.
PS. Do you suffer from Turret syndrome? Inquire mind want to know
Judging by the limit of your thinking it is fair to say these matters of state our to big for you to understand. Reading your post post all the time indeed a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
That was long averdue!
that you're minimizing what I SAY, don't really care buddy.
1.
Written by: xwill7, 2 Dec 2009 1:16 PM
From: United States, Chicago
josean how many fedex trucks do you have on the road near the border?
2.
Written by: etiennc01, 2 Dec 2009 2:33 PM
From: United States
Is that true that josean is in jail in the DR?
That was long averdue!
3.
Written by: Pepe32, 2 Dec 2009 2:37 PM
From: Dominican Republic
We got him out of jail ,Josean is now my Restavik ...LOL
4.
Written by: xwill7, 2 Dec 2009 3:51 PM
From: United States, Chicago
send josean a blackberry so he could post about the metro
Almost more attention is paid to me that to the news article.
http://freedomrider.blogspot.com/....-eat-dirt-photo-ruth-fremson.html
As part of LIE-onel Fernandez border modernization program he plans to bring a Starbucks franchises to the border towns!
El hijo eh machepa :P:
¡Que sencillo eres!
Everybody needs a laugh and without piti Josean this forum would be a boring place.
hope its true....
maybe the chino people can put up the WALL they are good at this,
just be careful with the DRYWALL they send u.
http://www.listindiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=123538
A great story that rises above normal fray.
This is a story of a symbiotic relationship where everybody wins. Perhaps this should be an example we should emulate.
Too bad every story mentioning Haiti gets treated same way: maligned; diminished; with disdain; reduced to a racial issue; etc.
This one is a success and one we should all feel good about. Perhaps this market should be replicated in several places along the border, to mutual benefit of Dominican farmers and businessmen and Haitian counterparts, consumers.
MJEV.
This is not the first time, everywhere he goes he does the same."
Yeah! You just have to watch his last perfomance in Paris defending us. With an advocate like that, one doesn't need to go to trial, he'll be accused by his own lawyer.
You're a bunch of hypocrites living on our back, and your president just proved it to us.
'Hey Outpala, And that is why our national products are so high in price, like a pound yuca or a pound of yautia is 15 pesos. I guess it is because we have fee you guys too."
These are the kind of comments which show me that you the Dominicans are leaving in a realm of dreamers. In fact, you remind me Dubai. That gigantic economic hole has finally swallowed his greedy diggers. The same faith is awaiting your economy, and you won't be able to say that I didn't tell you about it. because for your good memory sake, I archive everything I write on the net. That is the reason why, the Yankees can't argue too much with me, because I love to wave under their nose what I used to tell them about their economy, which has been quick to become a reality.
You the Dominicans know that you have borrowed too much money in order to finance your "folie de grandeur", and now the credit bubble has burst,
Don't you worry, keep kidding yourself, for one day you'll wake up. In fact, those black out are only just the beginning of your downfall. For when an economy is faltering, the very first to suffer is the energy department.
I'll be here laughing.
In fact, if your president wasn't a shameful opportunistic hypocrit, this is what he would have talked about us:
Haiti upswing seen at Caribbean conference
Sun Sentinel
December 2, 2009
After years of upheaval and reversals, Haiti is making significant progress; its streets safer, politics more stable and business growing, particpants said at the Miami Conference on the Caribbean this week.
Employment in the garment industry now tops 26,000, up from roughly 12,000 in 2006, with Brazilian, Korean and U.S. companies looking to invest in new facilities for export, said Leslie Delatour, a business consultant in Haiti and former World Bank economist.
Companies in South Florida also are bullish. Internet service provider Tropical Telecom invested about $7 million this year and plans to invest another $5 million next year, buoyed by a welcoming attitude by government to business, said Chris Taylor,
"There's a different energy about Haiti. It's exciting," said Jose Perez-Jones, senior vice president of Miami-based shipping line Seaboard Marine, which has seen its Haitian imports and exports grow this year.
The poorest country in the Americas, Haiti was hard hit lin 2008 by back-to-back hurricanes that prompted massive economic losses.
But increased international assistance and a more united, pro-business push by Haitians themselves is helping return the nation of 9 million people to stability and growth, panelists said.
A new productivity council, for example, has worked to slash the number of days needed to open a new business from roughly 300 to 75, said Maxime Charles, a Scotiabank executive in Haiti. And last month, a new prime minister took office without major violence in "for the first time... a very smooth transtion," Charles said.
The annual conference ends Wednesday.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-haiti-conference-20091202,0,1747702.story
Likewise, you can see for yourself that your president has been giving us bad press in order to impress his credidors. But that won't change the fact that we are slowly climbing out of shit. However, you the Eastern Latinos, are in deep shit hole, you can try to hide it as much you can, that won't make you safer from a total collapse of your economy.
We can understand now why your elite has begun to shut down its hateful rhetoric toward our people living among you: it needs the cheap labour. However, you the common people must beging to be grateful toward us, for we are taking care of our economy, and at the same time, we are helping you sustain yours by allowing you a one way 700 millions dollars trade and by supplying you cheap labour. Look at again at border town of Dajabon.
Show at least some respect for that kind of performance.
However, we Haitians have the word "survival" carved on our spinal cord: I predict that Haiti will proudly beat the recession. What about you cousins? I sincerely wish you a very good luck, because head of States travel only when they are going to beg or to give. Are you giving
Don't forget your pills, buddy!